A largely historical novel about one day in the ravaged life of the poet Hugo Treger, who sees the dire straits humanity and the world are in and who desparately searches for a way out, and for the truth. The author is a winner of the P.C.Hooft Prize, the Dutch State Prize for Literature.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Dutch --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: Dutch --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
introduction to Hollands greatest writer,
By A Customer
This review is from: Parents Worry (Hardcover)
At 21, a friend gave me this book and told me i absolutely HAD to read it. Until then, I had never read anything by Reve, thinking it would be too depressing. I was wrong. Parents worry proved to be a hilariously funny book about a sad poet and his obsessive thoughts. covering about 36 hours in the life of a writer, Reve gives a wonderfull account of how depression, fantasy and obsession actually manifest themselves in the life and thoughts of the main character. This book is a MUST READ, and quite disturbing when one realises his own thinking-proces might very well work the same way, different obsessions and all.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Reve isnt just unable to write a fault sence, he just cant..,
By hahilva@hotmail.com (Groningen, Holland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Parents Worry (Hardcover)
well as i mentioned before, this Dutch Master of eloquence, so dedicated, so vurnable and so strong in command, cannot, is not able to write a sloppy sentence, .... read it, your gonna love it, your gonna laugh, whine and mayby get happy, whilst the author's stays depressed, all for you...
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
SCHEPPEND KUNSTENAAR,
By A Customer
This review is from: Parents Worry (Hardcover)
Naarmate ik ouder word,
wordt, wat ik schrijf, hoewel fraaier verwoord,
steeds enkelvoudiger van inhoud:
Liefde (of geen liefde),
en ouder worden,
en dan de Dood.
Gerard Reve
uit: Het Zingend Hart, 197
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